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Forget the French dip—the new sandwich in town is the Salvadoran dip. It's not called that on the menu at Tropicos Breeze, but that's what the Bags Women FancyPrint Satchel Top Purse Wallets leather Foldable Handbags C8wc0174al Handle pan relleno ($7.75), or stuffed bread, listed in the appetizer section should be named. Like the well-known French dip, this Salvadoran sandwich comes with a side ramekin of sauce. But instead of a drippy, broth-like jus that most dips come with, the pan relleno comes with salsa-red, purée-thick sauce with bits of chicken floating in it. Like a salsa, the sauce's vivid hue hails from tomatoes and chiles, only instead of the cool, sharp flavors of salsa, they lend richness and warmth, with just a thin veneer of spice.

Traditionally, the pan relleno is like a Purse Crocodile Women's Handbag Eastylish Leather Wax Party Genuine Cow Bag Red Shouder fwavFR, a smothered sandwich, where the sauce is poured over top, but it works just as well to dip in the edge of sandwich you're about to eat, and have at. The slightly soft French bread sops up the sauce easily, and the panoply of vegetables—cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes, and radishes—catches the little bits of chicken as they join the mountain already on the sandwich. The mayonnaise coating on the bread keeps it from falling apart and joins with the bright flavors of the sauce. Dipping or smothering, it works. There could, theoretically, be a right and a wrong way to eat this sandwich, but Tropicos Breeze is a friendly place and nobody's going to correct you on your sandwich-eating style.

Award-winning food and travel writer Naomi Tomky uses her unrelenting enthusiasm as an eater, photographer, and writer to propel herself around the world. Follow her on Twitter @Gastrognome and on Instagram @the_gastrognome.

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